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From: Anurag Mandal <anurag.mandal@intel.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: bruce.richardson@intel.com, anatoly.burakov@intel.com,
	Anurag Mandal <anurag.mandal@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] net/ice: add MAC anti-spoof option
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 03:57:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251116035749.45922-1-anurag.mandal@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251113105914.34949-1-anurag.mandal@intel.com>

VRRP advertisement packets are dropped as TX-errors upon transmission from
a vsi of ice PF due to MAC anti-spoof check which is enabled by default.
There is no way to disable this check in the Tx direction to avoid
these packets being dropped.

This patch introduces devargs "mac-anti-spoof" to allow user to
disable MAC anti-spoof check. Disable MAC Anti-spoof check
in the Tx direction to avoid getting dropped as TX-errors upon packet
transmission when their source MAC address matches one of the MAC
addresses assigned to that same NIC port.

Signed-off-by: Anurag Mandal <anurag.mandal@intel.com>
---
V2: Addressed Bruce Richardson's feedback
 - changed devargs name to "mac-anti-spoof"
 - changed devargs member name to "mac_anti_spoof"
 - changed macro name to "ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG"
 - set the default value of the devargs to 1
 - added NOTICE log msg when MAC Anti-spoof is disabled
 - added more code comments to provide clarity
 - fixed typo error with ICE_AQ_VSI_SEC_FLAG_ENA_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF

 doc/guides/nics/ice.rst            | 11 +++++++
 drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h |  1 +
 3 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
index 6cc27cefa7..f7dae93435 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/ice.rst
@@ -194,6 +194,17 @@ Runtime Configuration
 
     -a 80:00.0,source-prune=1
 
+- ``MAC Anti-spoof Disable`` (default ``1``)
+
+  Disable MAC Anti-spoof check in the Tx direction to avoid getting dropped
+  as TX-errors upon packet transmission when their source MAC address
+  matches one of the MAC addresses assigned to that same NIC port.
+
+  MAC Anti-spoof can be disabled by setting the devargs parameter ``mac-anti-spoof``,
+  for example::
+
+    -a 80:00.0,mac-anti-spoof=0
+
 - ``Protocol extraction for per queue``
 
   Configure the RX queues to do protocol extraction into mbuf for protocol
diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
index c1d92435d1..885ded3473 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #define ICE_DDP_LOAD_SCHED_ARG    "ddp_load_sched_topo"
 #define ICE_TM_LEVELS_ARG         "tm_sched_levels"
 #define ICE_SOURCE_PRUNE_ARG      "source-prune"
+#define ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG    "mac-anti-spoof"
 #define ICE_LINK_STATE_ON_CLOSE   "link_state_on_close"
 
 #define ICE_CYCLECOUNTER_MASK  0xffffffffffffffffULL
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ static const char * const ice_valid_args[] = {
 	ICE_DDP_LOAD_SCHED_ARG,
 	ICE_TM_LEVELS_ARG,
 	ICE_SOURCE_PRUNE_ARG,
+	ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG,
 	ICE_LINK_STATE_ON_CLOSE,
 	NULL
 };
@@ -1761,13 +1763,52 @@ ice_setup_vsi(struct ice_pf *pf, enum ice_vsi_type type)
 		/* Source Prune */
 		if (ad->devargs.source_prune != 1) {
 			/* Disable source prune to support VRRP
-			 * when source-prune devarg is not set
+			 * when source-prune devargs is not set
 			 */
 			vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags =
 				ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_LOCAL_LB;
 			vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags |=
 				ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_SRC_PRUNE;
 		}
+		/* MAC Anti-spoof */
+		/* MAC anti-spoof check is enabled by default */
+		vsi_ctx.info.sec_flags =
+			ICE_AQ_VSI_SEC_FLAG_ENA_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF;
+
+		/* By default, Source Prune is disabled and
+		 * MAC Anti-spoof check is enabled.
+		 *
+		 * Source Prune is disabled by setting local
+		 * loopback with ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_LOCAL_LB
+		 * flag in the Rx direction.
+		 * ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_SRC_PRUNE is added to
+		 * prevent transmitted packets from being
+		 * looped back in some circumstances.
+		 *
+		 * MAC Anti-spoof check can be disabled by
+		 * clearing ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_SRC_PRUNE and
+		 * ICE_AQ_VSI_SEC_FLAG_ENA_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF
+		 * flags and setting Tx loopback with
+		 * ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_ALLOW_LB flag in the
+		 * Tx direction.
+		 */
+		if (ad->devargs.mac_anti_spoof == 0) {
+			/* Disable mac anti-spoof check in the
+			 * Tx direction to avoid getting dropped
+			 * as TX-errors for VRRP support when
+			 * mac-anti-spoof devargs is reset
+			 */
+			vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags &=
+				~ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_SRC_PRUNE;
+			PMD_INIT_LOG(NOTICE,
+				     "Disabling MAC Anti-spoof check "
+				     "in Tx direction does not affect "
+				     "Source Prune in Rx direction");
+			vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags |=
+				ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_ALLOW_LB;
+			vsi_ctx.info.sec_flags &=
+				~ICE_AQ_VSI_SEC_FLAG_ENA_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF;
+		}
 		cfg = ICE_AQ_VSI_PROP_SW_VALID;
 		vsi_ctx.info.valid_sections |= rte_cpu_to_le_16(cfg);
 		vsi_ctx.info.sw_flags2 = ICE_AQ_VSI_SW_FLAG_LAN_ENA;
@@ -2398,6 +2439,7 @@ static int ice_parse_devargs(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	ad->devargs.mac_anti_spoof = 1; /* enabled by default */
 	ad->devargs.proto_xtr_dflt = PROTO_XTR_NONE;
 	memset(ad->devargs.proto_xtr, PROTO_XTR_NONE,
 	       sizeof(ad->devargs.proto_xtr));
@@ -2467,6 +2509,11 @@ static int ice_parse_devargs(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 	if (ret)
 		goto bail;
 
+	ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG,
+				 &parse_bool, &ad->devargs.mac_anti_spoof);
+	if (ret)
+		goto bail;
+
 	ret = rte_kvargs_process(kvlist, ICE_LINK_STATE_ON_CLOSE,
 				 &parse_link_state_on_close, &ad->devargs.link_state_on_close);
 
@@ -7732,6 +7779,7 @@ RTE_PMD_REGISTER_PARAM_STRING(net_ice,
 			      ICE_DDP_LOAD_SCHED_ARG "=<0|1>"
 			      ICE_TM_LEVELS_ARG "=<N>"
 			      ICE_SOURCE_PRUNE_ARG "=<0|1>"
+			      ICE_MAC_ANTI_SPOOF_ARG "=<0|1>"
 			      ICE_RX_LOW_LATENCY_ARG "=<0|1>"
 			      ICE_LINK_STATE_ON_CLOSE "=<down|up|initial>");
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h
index 72ed65f13b..5fe4688d57 100644
--- a/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h
+++ b/drivers/net/intel/ice/ice_ethdev.h
@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ struct ice_devargs {
 	uint8_t ddp_load_sched;
 	uint8_t tm_exposed_levels;
 	uint8_t source_prune;
+	uint8_t mac_anti_spoof;
 	int link_state_on_close;
 	int xtr_field_offs;
 	uint8_t xtr_flag_offs[PROTO_XTR_MAX];
-- 
2.34.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-11-16  3:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-13 10:59 [PATCH] net/ice: add MAC anti-spoof disable option Anurag Mandal
2025-11-13 11:35 ` Bruce Richardson
2025-11-16  3:57 ` Anurag Mandal [this message]
2025-11-16  7:43   ` [PATCH v2] net/ice: add MAC anti-spoof option Morten Brørup

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